The Brazilian savanna (known as Cerrado) is an upland biome made up of various
vegetation types from herbaceous to arboreal. In this paper, MODIS remote sensing …

Resumo The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the worldÂs biodiversity hotspot and hosts some of
the most intensive agricultural activities for food production in the world. The objective of this …

O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever a riqueza, estrutura e diversidade de espécies
arbóreas em áreas de Floresta Estacional e ecótono (Floresta Estacional/Floresta …

Birds are considered efficient bioindicators, by their behavioral characteristics, diversified
diet, and use of several vegetation layers, including in contaminated environments. The …

The Pleistocene Arc Theory (PAT) suggests that present-day disjunct fragments of dry
forests in central tropical South America give evidence of a previously more continuous …

Este artigo é resultado de uma extensa pesquisa realizada em quatorze unidades de
conservação de proteção integral do Bioma Caatinga conduzida por pesquisadores e …

Considerando que a expansão urbana e o aumento das atividades antrópicas geram perda
e fragmentação dos hábitats naturais, ameaçando a biodiversidade, a conservação dos …

In Brazil, the number of floristic inventories involving ferns and lycophytes in the Cerrado
domain is considerable. However, most of the diversity is recorded for states in the Central …

Rainfall is a major component of the hydrological cycle. The lack of basic information on
rainfall spatial variability is a major source of uncertainty in many fields of studies, eg …

The loss of biodiversity in transitional forests between the Cerrado and Amazonia, the two
largest neotropical phytogeographic domains, is an issue of great concern. This extensive …